Bia didn’t maintain again when requested about her ongoing feud with Cardi B throughout a latest sit-down with Hot 97, disregarding the Bronx rapper’s newest diss with a pointy retort and redirecting consideration to her upcoming debut album.

Bia, who’s gearing as much as launch her first full-length mission, BIANCA, on Friday (October 10), addressed Cardi’s pointed lyrics on “Pretty & Petty,” a observe from Cardi’s 2024 album “Am I the Drama?” that reignited pressure between the 2 artists.

“Girl, go enjoy your pregnancy,” Bia stated in the course of the interview. “I don’t want to get on your ass again, or say something that’s going to hurt your feelings, make me look like the bad guy, because I’m talking about somebody with a baby. Like, no, that’s not the energy I’m on, you know? I don’t want that to come back to me. My mother didn’t raise me to be dragging a pregnant lady.”

The friction between the 2 rappers has been simmering for over a yr, sparked by accusations that Cardi lifted artistic concepts from Bia. What started as mutual respect in 2021 turned bitter in 2023 after Bia preferred a tweet suggesting Cardi had borrowed her type.

“It started on the phone, and she called me screaming like 15 times back-to-back. So that respect is out the window,” Bia stated. “The yelling was because I liked a tweet for the similarities between the creative. You bully them out of how they feel or the creative that you stealing. You can’t bully everybody you know I’m saying there’s a real truth to what’s going on.”

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Cardi later addressed the scenario by means of music, together with a verse on the “Wanna Be” remix the place she name-dropped Bia and accused her of chasing clout. Bia responded along with her personal observe “Sue Me” and Cardi dropped “Pretty & Petty,” from her new album Am I The Drama? through which Cardi took goal at Bia’s seems and profession.

However, Bia made it clear she’s not fascinated with dragging the meat out any longer.

“I’m glad she got that. I’m glad she felt like she could get that off,” Bia stated. “But, but overall, like for real, I knew it was coming. Cause like, this is rap, I’m competitive. So like, I diss you, you diss me, but you diss me, I diss you. It’s like, it was like a thing that, that we know, we know what the reasons were and why it was all happening. So I just, I like, it’s part of the game. I’m not gonna keep going back and forth with you and the writer, this is a year later.”

Cardi has claimed her response was pushed by Bia’s point out of her youngsters in lyrics. But Bia insists that wasn’t her intent.

“I didn’t speak about her kids. I didn’t speak negatively about her kids,” she stated. “I spoke negatively about her, but I used their names because that’s rap. It’s wordplay. It’s a metaphor. Even if those weren’t her kids’ names, the bars would have still worked. So like, okay, noted. That’s the only part that I see. But we see when people talking about people’s kids online all week. That wasn’t that.”

Instead of continuous the back-and-forth, Bia is concentrated on the discharge of “BIANCA,” which she describes as her most private and expansive mission to this point.

The 16-track album consists of collaborations with Key Glock on “DADE,” a single featured on the Madden NFL 26 soundtrack, and “Birthday Behavior” with Young Miko. Another observe, “WE ON GO,” served because the anthem for the WNBA playoffs and was additionally featured in NBA 2K26.

“BIANCA” marks Bia’s first official LP following a string of EPs together with “Nice Girls Finish Last: Cuidado” (2018), “For Certain” (2020), and “Really Her” (2023). She instructed Nessa the album represents development, honesty and a fearless method to her artistry.

While the feud with Cardi has drawn headlines, Bia seems prepared to maneuver on.

“You have to know that this happens to artists every single day,” she stated. “It’s not even about her. It’s about that you have smaller artists or artists who don’t have as big of a platform and their creative gets reworked by bigger artists… It’s not just me. I can pull out five songs that she did it to. So it’s like, let’s just be real about that. The issue for me is a creative issue.”

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